2006-05-06, 8:25 p.m.: Possibly everyone's in a funk right now? Just without the pink cast? 0 comments
2006-05-05, 11:46 p.m.: From Deborah Solomon's questions for Carlos Fuentes in last Sunday's NYT (which came twice, not not at all, contrary to previously held belief). Something about this exchange is, I don't know, so very lovely:
You've had more than your share of sorrows.
Most of all not having my son around. I was very proud of him. He was a very good painter. He had hemophilia. He died six years ago. Natasha, my daughter, just died last summer.
How do you get up in the morning after that kind of loss?
You go on. You go on. You bring the person you love inside you. That is how you cope. You make him or her live within you. The whole experience I had with my children is in me. It is nowhere else I can see. I can see a photograph, I can feel sad, I can read a poem, but the experience of having them within myself is what matters.
Are you referring to the Catholic belief in the afterlife?
My wife has that belief, but I don't.
You're an atheist?
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics. 0 comments
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